Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
When we write programs that "learn", it turns out that we do and they don't.
Alan J. Perlis
To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program.
Alan J. Perlis
In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
You're never done, you just run out of time.
Anonymous
Development has two outputs... Code & Bugs
Anonymous
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
Alan J. Perlis
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.
Anonymous
It is the user who should parameterize procedures, not their creators.
Alan J. Perlis
Good software, like wine, takes time.
Joel Spolsky
Must be zero, or equal to MAPI_UNICODE. In either case, however, this parameter is ignored.
MSDN